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[Thad]

I don't know about the text, but CNN's calling it for Biden.  Which makes sense given that the other likely choices have been ruled out.

[Detonator]

If somehow it's not Biden, it will be the greatest fake-out of all time.  That will give the texters their money's worth.

[Arc]

ABC News reported that the Secret Service arrived at his residence. Not only was there Press, but normal citizens just hanging out around his place, hoping to break the news.

[Arc]

HOWEVER, the Secret Service could have also have been dispatched to Biden because he threatened Obama after not choosing him. The plot thickens!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Y8AFctpjo

That look at the end? Classic. And his best moment from this past year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9aIb-IplqY

And hooooooollly shit, his eldest son is shipping off to Iraq around election time. His eldest son is not only a captain in the Army National Guard, but also the state's Attorney General. If Biden wins both the Vice-Presidency, and his Senate seat, he could retire the seat, and the Democratic Governor would then appoint a replacement. The presumptive replacement? Biden's eldest son. Vhat a tweest!

[Arc]

Now I'm hoping for 3am.

And now for a taste of things to come...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mPOAKXBi9Pw

[Kazz]

TURNING HIS BACK ON THE WHITE MAN, EH

SHOULDA KNOWN.

[Thad]

And now for a taste of things to come...

As I said, you can pretty much find/replace "9/11" to "Vietnam" and you've got the McCain campaign at this point.

[Shinra]

it's official. Hello, vice president Biden.

[Detonator]

[Thad]

It's okay.  I miss the link for the next page sometimes too.

...Anyway.  Guess now we're down to speculating on McCain's running-mate.

[Niku]

a prisoner of war camp.

 

[TA]

I rather like this one.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=E9aIb-IplqY

Edit: Wow I somehow combined the text of the first post with the video from the second post.  Derp.  I blame, uh, 9/11.

[Arc]

BANNED.

[Thad]

I've probably told this story before, but I knew a guy in college who was once talking about how the assault weapons ban was unconstitutional.  When I said that ordinary citizens don't need assault weapons, he responded that the Bill of Rights isn't based on need.

It has bugged me for YEARS that I was drunk and slow and did not respond with "Recite the Second Amendment.  Right now."

Of course, now we've got a Supreme Court who agrees with my friend that the first half of the Second Amendment is just window-dressing and doesn't mean anything, so I guess I lose out on that one.

[Cthulhu-chan]

Wait, what?  The first part isn't window dressing, it's a qualifier.  Because the state needs to be armed to protect itself, citizens must retain the right to arm themselves to protect themselves from the state.  They did just get done with this whole war for independence.  It certainly is debatable as to how useful such a clause is in this modern world, but the intent is fairly clear.

[Thad]

I agree.

The self-described Constitutional constructionists on the Supreme Court don't.

Or at least, to put it less glibly, they have a pretty fucking broad definition of what constitutes a well-regulated militia.

Anyway.  I think armed rebellion against the government is something of an anachronistic concept, but on the other hand I'm confident that if Jefferson were alive today he'd be calling for it.

[Cthulhu-chan]

Oh.  Huh.  I'm not sure I follow, then.

edit: Which is to say, what did the supreme court consider a militia?

double edit:

I think armed rebellion against the government is something of an anachronistic concept, but on the other hand I'm confident that if Jefferson were alive today he'd be calling for it.

Agreeing so hard.

[Mongrel]

I loved this quote

In a debate during the Democratic primary contest, Biden raised questions about Obama's foreign policy experience.

"Who among us is going to be able on day one to step in an end the war? Who among us understands what to do about Pakistan? Who among us is going to pick up the phone and immediately interface with Putin and tell him to lay off Georgia because Saakashvili is in real trouble. Who among us knows what they're doing? I have 35 years of experience," Biden said.

During another debate, moderator George Stephanopoulos referred to some of Biden's comments on Obama.

"You were asked, 'Is he ready?' You said, 'I think he can be ready, but right now, I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training,'" Stephanopoulos said.

"I think I stand by that statement," Biden replied.

Biden, in a July interview, said he would choose Obama's judgment over John McCain's war record and foreign policy experience.

"But 20 years of experience that has not been very solid in terms of projecting what was going to happen just doesn't make you a better commander-in-chief," Biden said. "We don't need as a commander-in-chief a war hero. John's a war hero. We need someone with some wisdom."

 

[Brentai]

I think what Thad's saying is that the Second Amendment says right there in the wording that the right to bear arms cannot either be taken away or unregulated.

Letting citizens with no need have assault weapons is pretty unregulated.  Thus, unconstitutional.

Of course it's hard to tell, the document itself being written in a form of English nobody has spoken in nearly 300 years, but that's never stopped anybody from trying to parse it literally before.

Q: Who's better about foreign policy, Obama or McCain?
Biden: Me.

[Arc]

Joe Biden on Education:

I sleep with a teacher every night.

Photo Spread.

Newspaper Front Pages.

Going Col. Jessep on McCain & Bush:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1op8vwF5UA